The WRITING Process

Stage

Planning and
Prewriting
Brainstorm!
Choose your topic!

Who is your

audience?
Whats the purpose
of your writing?

Research!
Layout and Structure
Notes and Lists of
Words you can use

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Drafting
Use prewriting notes to help.
Mistakes can be fixed later.
Voice? How does your narrator sound?
FIRST / SECOND / THIRD person?

sentences

Write in
Dont bother correcting spelling or grammar

Just get it out of

your head and into
words on your
page!

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Revising
Check your writing for sense and
readability.
Check for choppy sentences.
Combine lots of short sentences to make longer ones.

Check for run on sentences.

Chop up sentences with more than two connectives.

Check your paragraphs.

Remember: what are the seven situations where we need to start a new paragraph?

Check for sense.

Read it aloud, and correct any mistakes that are hard to say, or dont sound right.

Read it aloud to yourself.

Do you need to add more detail?

Reorganise

if necessary

Does it address all of the requirements?

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Editing and
Proofreading

The WRITING Process Stage

Now worry about the mistakes.

Check your spelling, your punctuation and your

grammar and use a coloured pen

and proofreading symbols:
p
sp
[
C
lc
?
^
rep
na
s/v
t/v
(underline)
ros

punctuation needed
spelling mistake
new paragraph needed
capital letter needed
lower case letter needed
doesn't make sense
something left out
unnecessary repetition
not applicable / not appropriate
subject/verb agreement is incorrect
tense/verb agreement is incorrect
sentence structure needs correction
run-on sentence

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Publishing

The WRITING Process Stage

Type it up or hand write it neatly, fixing all of the mistakes you

identified. Choose only two

fonts

maximum

cool font for the

titles

plain basic font for the text.

Use principles of
design for visual
texts.

Choose few
colours because too many
are hard to read.

Put your
name on
it.
Check once more for TYPPOS